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I'm with Chuck here... sometimes annoyed, sometimes chuckling, twice laughing out loud while finally catching up. Guess I really got to read the two Jones books, but there's plenty of stuff I should finally read and not enough time, so... Mr. spang, that list offered by Leeway is definitely a good one - obviously it doesn't end there, not by a long shot. I'd throw in Barry Guy, Irene Schweizer, Henry Threadgill, Leo Smith and Roscoe Mitchell, to just name a few more.

John Clark - Faces (ECM)

Well, I'm not stating I'm an expert at speed issues at all - it's just that I've heard some fixed versions where it made a big difference, even if the sound's bad (that Miles Amsterdam set is just a case in point). This is really something only specialists should do... in best case, musicians who know the tunes AND the players in question, who know if so-and-so was prone to using sharp pitch or playing this or that tune a half tone lower than most others would do etc. etc. It's very tricky. And that's just the beginning... the main job is then figuring out by how many "cents" a track is off the assumedly correct speed. Often if cassettes are involved, there's a constant shift, say a recording starts at correct pitch but ends half a tone sharp, so you have to figure all of that out in order to fix it. To me, it's an intriguing thing, but I could never do it myself.

Too bad - just read the articles on his 90th birthday... r.i.p. Hazy

Whoah, AB, that's quite a story! Me, I've been drinking mostly water (2-3 litres a day, just plain tap water, no bubbles for me)... add to that plenty of coffee and (on some days plenty of) alcoholic beverages (and there again, if I have wine with dinner, I always drink lots of water with it, too). There were days when I drank lots of Ginger Ale (Schweppes... and hence Coke stuff, too) but nowadays I just drink some such if I really feel like it, which might be once a week or once a month. Never felt like I was missing anything, (tap) water is just what I need...

Steve, some pitch correction may go a long way, even if most of us wouldn't recognize the wrong pitch as such... the Miles Amsterdam concert with Barney Wilen, for instance, always on wrong pitch on any official release so far, sounds *much* better once corrected! Not sure you get the same effect with older poorly recorded sessions, but I'd be all for it. There are some folks fixing up stuff on dime, but I think the Rockland wasn't amongst them (Are those Parkers to be considered legit or not? If it's legit, it's off dime's limits of course!)

Hey, what's that? Never seen it before! Good, great, essential? (Well, good at least, it's Duke!)

I think where there are Legacy editions around at the time the boxes appear, they were used - the first Elvis set, for instance, is a combination of both... but there's no need for it any longer now that several Legacy Edition 2CD sets have appeared... and that's the main point: make sure not to buy too many cheapo sets that you won't need in a few months because you got better editions! Previous threads on these and the Rhino 5CD sets: A couple of back covers (you can discern bonus tracks): (on the Miles, the first disc has bonus tracks, too, but not marked with an asterisk, it seems)

Classics did (they're long gone, I think) their own transfers, straight from 78's - just in case that makes a difference... it's my understanding they never stole or just polished up anyone's transfers. (Not sure how they handled EP/LP material, before stopping their releases they reached 1954/55 in some cases - I guess again they did their own vinyl transfers.) Definitive has used MP3 - at least according to my version of Trader's Little Helper... I've only checked one of their Bechet 3CD sets, but I'm sure there will be others, some of them have horrid sound.

:tup Way too few folks around doing Robison's songs!

Happy Birthday, Jon! :party:

Sounds pretty much better than I'd dare hoping! I'm in! Thanks Steve!

No, I never took coke... nor do I drink it (ah well, maybe one per month?).

So that was months before the tour... weird! Maybe they just didn't hit if off too nicely during the concerts. I think some are around, will have to listen! I love Rota and I enjoy most of what I've heard of Galliano's so far - and I absolutely love his trio disc from a few years ago, where he does a marvelous "Ruby, My Dear"!

Or do the album and then offer a two CD package as you describe with the rest of the material?

I guess I'll have to check it out some day... heard that the band was sounding very unrehearsed in their live concerts, though. When was the CD made? Before or after the tour?

Jim, I didn't search around a lot, but a quick search found this here, confirming what you (and I) assumed: http://www.christianmcbride.com/scrolls/scroll_mythang_output.html?id=87 Note that it's from 2007... and that Silver retired several years before that, even (2004 I think).

Thanks for confirming, Hans.

I guess that... the albums set likely has just tracklists and discographical infos and no notes whatsoever. Also it may not contain some bonus tracks (I think the Monk box had a few prev. unreleased dates included), rather it should more or less be a straight reissue of the OJCCD reissues. And it will use any previously available remastering. But I don't have it and the above is stated with respect to the Rollins Prestige albums box and several posts about the Ellington Carnegie box using the same (Cedar-ized in that case) remasterings as the old Fantasy 2CD sets.

I've got it on pre-order... looking forward a hell of a lot! @ Dave James: it was mentioned a few posts further up, most recent activity here before your inquiry...

Bill, they're all playable, in fact most of them without surface noise and with covers that look like they've been treated very carefully... I guess that's NM+ or some such in vinyl lingo. Haven't yet listened to the Leimgruber... but at around 6$ it was a steal (as were some of the others). (Reality check: gigantic [largest size] cup of coffee at darn Starbucks would cost quite a bit more than that.)

Duly noted - I once almost bought it, over 10 years ago... but as I've got the old Decca 3CD set, there really was no need.

Finally in the right mood for this one: And I enjoy it a lot! Sound is pretty muddy... as is the design - but I love the snapshot of Dudu's on the front cover and sound is good enough not to distract - Pukwana's sax comes through loud and clear, so do the drums. The bass is very low in the mix and the piano sounds battered and flat and twangy.

I don't trust them any more than I did before finding out that the Bechet RCA set was MP3-sourced... their Basie Columbia sets sound absolutely horrible, too - I could never stand listening to them in their entirety.

Seems to be official now: http://jazztimes.com/sections/news/articles/29538-saxophonist-red-holloway-dead-at-84 Sad news. Seems he had quite a life... and quite a wonderful style, too! Grew to love the albums he made with Jack McDuff.